Holland Consulting was the computer support, networking and
computer security company of Nick
Holland, a 30+ year member of the small computer industry.

In 2005, Holland Consulting stopped actively operating for customers,
this website remains as a soapbox for Nick to rant and guide others in
the computer world.

"My goal is to make computers like telephones. No one cares what brand
the phone on their desk is. They pick it up, use it, hang up. They
should just work and let people get on with their work they have to do." -- Nick Holland, 1988.

"Computers are now like phones. Unfortunately, the phones came
to the computers. They crash. They are unreliable. They often barely
work as phones. They need constant updating, but none of that matters if
you have the right brand phone."-- Nick Holland, 2007... and this may have a lot to do with why I am no longer running my
own business

The REAL "five-nines" of IT:

Is it fast? Nein!

Is it reliable? Nein!

Is it feature-rich? Nein!

Is it secure? Nein!

Is it documented? Nein!

(Stolen from a friend of mine...and this may also have a lot to do with why I am
no longer running my own business

Old Holland Consulting stuff. A number of people have told me over the years that
they really respected my business practices and philosophy, even after I shut
down, and some have been amused or inspired by how I described my business.
So, I offer these old pages for those that are interested.

Newer stuff:

Tech Guides

Check the dates...not everything is to be considered relevant in today's world!

Windows 95/98 installation guide While only of interest to a computer
historian at this point, I leave it here because I think it may have been the BEST guide to the best
way of installing Windows 95 or Windows 98. Maybe WindowsME, but I never really played with it. From 1999.

Firewalling against "difficult" services 10/4/2003.
When I wrote this, most people claimed DNS poisoning as a way to control what happened on and
around your network was considered a "poor" way of doing it, even though it worked BETTER than
most other firewalling solutions other than a full internet proxy.
Now, there are companies providing this service for money. Well, I missed that one, now,
didn't I?

Accusys RAID box notes. This was BY FAR the best small business
RAID solution I have ever worked with. Wish a modern decendant was
still available now. 7/4/2006

E-mail nick@holland-consulting.net ("HEY! You should know better than to
put your e-mail on-line in an easy form like that!" Believe me, after having this domain for around 20 years now,
every spammer and scammer in the world knows me)

This web site
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If you are looking for a good, low-cost and OpenBSD friendly
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That is the only ad you will see on this site! Anything else is your problem.